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Posted by olga on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 3:18pm.

Engineers are trying to create artificial "gravity" in a ringshaped space station by spinning it like a centrifuge. The ring is 120 m in radius. How quickly must the space station turn in order to give the astronauts inside it apparent weights equal to their real weights at the earth’s surface?

physics - bobpursley, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 3:21pm
9.8= w^2 * r
solve for w.

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